A bad fall last night for Antonella Fiordelisi on Beijing Express broadcast every Thursday on Sky and NOW and always available on demand. As soon as the host Costantino della Gherardesca started the fifth stage, the model and influencer from Salerno with one and a half million followers on Instagram, who was outside the Phu That pagoda in Muang Xay (Laos), stumbled and fell down for the stairs. «I stopped for a moment – she says – because my buttock hurt so bad, all the other competitors thought I would give up. But no, I got up and continued as if nothing had happened. And in the end we even won the stage.”
A real metamorphosis, I would say. In other times she would not have reacted like this.
«True, before I was a bit complaining, I would get angry even if my nail broke. Now I take everything more lightly and give the right value to things. I have to consider myself lucky for everything I have, I have learned to meet people who really live with very little.”
There was a period in which she was besieged by haters, now in Beijing Express she has greatly recovered her relationship with others and is receiving full acclaim. Has she changed or has her audience changed?
«Beijing Express is not a reality show like all the others, it is a life experience that affects you and also changes you from an emotional point of view. On social media I see many people who have changed their minds about me, who used to hate me and now instead identify with me and appreciate me for who I am: a new Antonella who falls, gets up, fights, says what she thinks about herself and yes excites.”
The fall down the stairs wasn’t the only accident...
“Absolutely no. I also got paddled on the head while canoeing and another time I risked burning my ankle while cooking rice.”
He recently celebrated his 26th birthday in Milan with a big party and a big cake on which was written «Alea iacta est e never cogl… in my life».
«There was also another cake on which it was written: “Now 26, now old for Leonardo Di Caprio”.
But none of his exes were offended?
«No, no one showed up. But on the other hand it was a nice thing, in the sense that in any case I had experiences that made me understand that I have to be more selective.”
How is it going with your adventure companion Estefania Bernal with whom you are competing in Beijing Express as an ItaliaArgentina couple?
“It’s a very nice relationship, we both always see the glass as half full, we’re both positive.”
And the other Salerno native, Pierluigi Iorio, who is a couple, I Brillanti, with Nancy Brilli?
«I had the opportunity to meet him, unfortunately he has already been eliminated. Very nice, very good person.”
Now what is the next goal?
«Studying, studying diction and also something else that I won’t say».
And why?
“I’m afraid of eyes on me, it’s better to say things later, when they’re done.”
Superstitious, then? Are you also afraid of the black cat?
«No, no, I have never believed in the negative power of the black cat. With eyes on me, however, I believe it and how.”
In a previous interview he told me that his goal was to achieve some more results in sport. Has he ever thought about taking up fencing again, a discipline in which he has played successfully for years?
«I must say that thanks to Beijing Express, a certain competitive spirit has returned to me, it’s as if I had had a flashback that took me back in time, to when I used to compete in fencing and got so tired».
So?
«First of all, it made me want to train more in the gym. But then I also thought about going back to fencing. Even though I am aware that it requires time and sacrifices and I don’t know if at this moment, with all the activities I have, I would be ready to do it.”
Speaking of your activities, has there ever been a product that you refused to endorse?
«No, generally I always promote quality products that I use. Before recommending them to others, I test them and make sure that I like them and that they are good.”
One last thing, but come onAre you really “more single than ever” these days?
“Yes, I can say it: I’m very single and I don’t go out with just anyone.”
